Hard to believe but true: this year we celebrate our 25th anniversary!
What began in 1997 with 5 employees has grown over the last 25 years to a team of over 50 people.
The areas of special construction made of aluminium and steel as well as trusses for event technology still represent our core business. Parallel to this, we have established ourselves over the past two and a half decades as a reliable partner for industry clients from the food, automotive and agricultural sectors in the fields of special constructions and contract welding.
The motto of our company founder and mastermind Hans-Wilhelm Flegel has been from day one: "The crazier the idea, the better. There is no idea that cannot be implemented."
We have remained true to this motto over all these years and still live by it: "We don't do things by halves. What we do, we do it right!"
So it is not too surprising that we are regularly entrusted with projects and developments that are technically extremely demanding and challenging.
One of the first major projects was Marius Müller-Westernhagen's tour in 1999, which relied on an extremely sophisticated stage set – by the standards of that time. (OK, today’s stages are full of video walls, but that's the way it was back then, in 1999...).
Today, we are a full-service provider and, in addition to sales, we cover the areas of design, structural engineering and production with a complete in-house team, which guarantees our customers fast development and excecution of projects and great flexibility. Upon request, we also carry out the assembly work on a turnkey basis.
In the field of special constructions, for example, we developed, designed, manufactured and installed the substructures for a new video wall in the stadium of Bayern Munich and for Europe's largest video cube in the Schalke Stadium.
With the MLT TWO (Moving Light Truss TWO), we have set a new standard in event technology in the category of pre-rig truss. The MLT TWO is now a standard on many major tours and this year toured Europe with, for example, Judas Priest, 50 Cent, Michel Kiwanuka, Karpe, David Gray, Dermot Kennedy, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Duran Duran, Lewis Capaldi and the Chemical Brothers.
In product development, we rely on a very close cooperation with our customers in order to develop as closely as possible to the market and to achieve the highest possible customer satisfaction. Thus, more than 90% of customer requests were implemented with regard to the MLT TWO and important elements such as the shock-absorbing wheels were developed to protect the sensitive lighting technology, the Lowering Set for smaller lighting or the Raincover to protect the expensive lighting technology from rain and during transportation. It was not without reason that the MLT TWO won the 2021 Innovation Award for Crafts of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
At the beginning of 2022, we launched another new truss, the BBT (Big Boys Toy Truss).
The BBT is a heavy-duty truss; it can take 20 tons of distributed load over a span of 30 metres (!). This means up to 60% more weight capacity than other aluminium trusses in its class. The BBT is completely boltable and can thus be transported in a space- and CO2-saving way: up to 150 metres of BBT fit into a truck, which corresponds to a halving of the transport volume compared to conventional trusses.
For 2022, we were able to enjoy a large number of applicants and fill all 5 apprenticeship places in the areas of metal construction and commercial positions in a short time. Also in 2023, we will again offer new apprenticeship positions.
For us, standing still means taking a step backwards, and so the next product innovations are already in the making. It remains exciting.
Here's to the next 25 years with you and your crazy ideas and projects!
We say THANK YOU and: CHEERS!
